Author: Javad Shomali

There are a number of questions that needs to be answered in this context. 1. What is the purpose of the punishments mentioned in the Qur’an? 2. What is the nature of these punishments? 3. How is punishment reconciled with God’s love?   1. What is the purpose of the punishments mentioned in the Qur’an?…

Many of us were told that Dunya is the reality we are in right now, and later on, after the day of ressurection another reality would exist, which is called Akhira. Of course, this is the understanding of many Muslims. However, a deeper reading of the Qur’an presents another view, one that Allamah Tabatabai elaborated…

Humanity’s knowledge of God increased gradually and over a period of thousands of years. And in these periods the ones with the highest understanding and relationships with God but still their understanding was not complete. Some could keep it only for themselves as they could not put the meaning they had found into words and…